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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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The principal reason, invariably, most successful giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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For me, reading is reading.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that overcome such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingl
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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